How did the Heat Diner scene meet, according to director Michael Man

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This year coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the classic crime of Michael Man “Hit, which saw legendary actors Al Pacino and Robert de Nero in the same scene for the first time, although she previously participated in” The Godfather Part II “. The “Heat” dinner scene, in which the Pacino policeman in the world, Vincent Hanna, was sitting on the other side of the Stoic De Niro thief, Neil McCalli, was an obsession with a certain type of Cinephile for years, It was the subject of adequacy from all over the movie and television, including recently in the movie “Dardevil: Born Again”. Before the final night show of “Heat” at the TCM Classic Film Festival 2025, Pacino and Writer/Director Michael Mann participated in a question and answer where they talked about that moment and how they felt at that time.

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Pachino talked about the comfort of his feeling of working with De Niro, who has known him for decades before the start of production, thanks to Man’s efficiency behind the camera and the way the director created a sense of safety for his representatives. But when the supervisor Bin Mankuzer man asked whether he was feeling an additional feeling while filming this scene because of what he means in the great plan for the history of the movie, Man responded as a cold as one of his characters: “Not at all.”

“By this point, we had a very comprehensive pre -production, we were shooting for five to six weeks,” Man said. “When I am scheduled a movie, I work hard to scheduling, and take a scene like this very important and usually put it in the middle of the table. Because when you make a movie, everyone improves this movie while you are doing it. So, you will not do anything like this, you will never do it. Vincent Hanna, and the importance they meet together.

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One of my favorite parts of questions and answers was talking about the nature of Neil and Vincent, the twin pillars of this narration. “It is a very complicated scene,” he said. “I cannot imagine that anyone else does this except for the Al -Wob family. These two men are really contradictory to each other. They have some components of their characters that are completely incompatible with each other, and two are completely identical. They are the only two people in the film who perceive themselves completely.

I never heard him explaining a major worker who went to choose the site to photograph this scene, and why he chose to have three cameras working at the same time when filming the scene:

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“For this reason, Kate Mantillini picked up, because he was internal in black and white. I didn’t want to parasitize what these two actors would do (…) I wanted to focus all your attention on what was going on. Because when Bob turned like this (He moves a little on his chair) And he places his hand closer to the place where he may have a hidden weapon, (during) the dialogue, you will see some other steps that were counter. There was a kind of organic unit to take. So I wanted to pick up the two, their work, at the same time. Meaning, there is an organic unit to take 10 different from Take 11 and different from Take 12. For this reason I used three cameras. Most of the scene takes 11. “

vision This film is well studied At the Chinese TCL Theater in Hollywood, one of the best cinema theaters in the world, he was transcendent. Pacino and De Niro do some of their best work in their amazing professions, surrounded Dennis Hysper, who once told me how working with De Niro) There is no framework of cinematography in Dante Spinotti who feels outfit. Even the chaos that is controlled in the famous battle of the film in the movie I worked better for me on a large screen ever, with the sound effects of dividing the ear across the stage with all its glory.

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You can hear me talking about my experience at this year’s TCM Film Festival, where I also saw “doubts”, “Return to the Future”, “The Battle of the Fire Weapons in OK CORLAL” and “Talk of the Town”, in today’s episode of The /Film Daily Podcast:

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“Heat” is available on 4K here.